We read as far as "Howlong!" ((363.11)
The sections we read today are quite puzzling, to put it mildly.
'A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake' by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson* might be of some help in deciphering some of the preceding pages. An excerpt from the above book (pages 229-230) is given below.
(According to Campbell & Robinson, we are still in the tavern. ) The tavernkeeper, tries to defend the Russian General, and gives examples from his own life to show that the guilt of the High Personage is shared by mankind at large. This places him in direct opposition to the tavern company and leads swiftly to his humiliation and collapse. ... The radio has started again... The tavernkeeper, having betrayed his sympathy for the master-type individual, is now about to suffer the consequences of popular disapprobation. More specifically, he is about to be torn to pieces and flung to the winds.
Here is more help in understanding the pages 361-363. (Source: The blog, One Year in the Wake)
*New World Library edition, 1944, Reprinted 2005, ISBN 1-57731-405-0
The sections we read today are quite puzzling, to put it mildly.
'A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake' by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson* might be of some help in deciphering some of the preceding pages. An excerpt from the above book (pages 229-230) is given below.
(According to Campbell & Robinson, we are still in the tavern. ) The tavernkeeper, tries to defend the Russian General, and gives examples from his own life to show that the guilt of the High Personage is shared by mankind at large. This places him in direct opposition to the tavern company and leads swiftly to his humiliation and collapse. ... The radio has started again... The tavernkeeper, having betrayed his sympathy for the master-type individual, is now about to suffer the consequences of popular disapprobation. More specifically, he is about to be torn to pieces and flung to the winds.
Here is more help in understanding the pages 361-363. (Source: The blog, One Year in the Wake)
*New World Library edition, 1944, Reprinted 2005, ISBN 1-57731-405-0
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